United plans more feeder flights at Los Angeles

United Airlines plans to connect more smaller destinations to Los Angeles International airport in 2018, increasing connecting feed over the hub. Potential new destinations include Medford, Oregon, and similarly sized markets, the carrier's president Scott Kirby said Sept 25. "The key to making Los Angeles work is really having lots of connectivity and feed here," he says. United begins new nonstop service to Singapore from LAX Oct 27, and will increase capacity on routes to Hawaii from December. The new destinations planned in 2018 will, in part, feed these new routes and other existing services from LAX, says Kirby. In addition to Medford, which United flies to from its Denver and San Francisco hubs, the carrier serves a plethora of small- to mid-size destinations in the west that it could connect to LAX. <br/>